Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from Kaczynski’s journals from the early 1970s, recording his progress at hunting and gathering, and his connection to the Montana wilderness; a hand-written folded sheet of paper detailing his acts of “monkey wrenching” and first attempts at planting bombs; two notebooks written in numerical code in 1985 and decoded by Benning in 2011; two excepts from Industrial Society and Its Future by "FC" (aka the Unabomber Manifesto) as published in The New York Times and The Washington Post in 1995; and a 2001 interview with Kaczynski by J. Alienus Rychalski, special correspondent for the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch.
Direction
Benning spent 40 years refining this structuralist terror.
Sound
Kaczynski's flat voice against silence — no score needed.
Director
James Benning
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Benning built the cabin replica himself in Montana, using only hand tools, matching Kaczynski's methods.
The 'FC' initials in the manifesto stood for 'Freedom Club' — a one-man 'organization' Kaczynski invented to seem larger than himself.
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